What is mechanical weathering?

a. the buildup of rock formations over time.

b. the breakdown of rock through mechanical disintegration and physical stress.

c. the buildup of chemical deposits on the surface.

d. the breakdown of rock through decomposition of chemicals.

Why does the skin of your finger shrink when you wash clothes for a long time?

Up until 1938, paleontologists accepted the idea that coelacanths (an ancient fish) went extinct at the time that they last appear in the fossil record, about 80 million years ago. but in 1938, a live coelacanth was discovered off the coast of south africa that was compared to the fossil record and found to be the same species what goal of science does this discovery represent

Ayoung boy has been found and police are trying to locate his family they take a dna sample from him and begin collec dna samples from families who have missing children if police use dna samples only from the fathers, which type of dn technology can they use to identify the boy's parent? y-chromosome analysis omtdna (mitochondrial dna) analysis vntrs (variable tandem repeats) o pcr (polymerase chain reaction) analysis